A “secret plan” to broker a peace settlement between Russia and Ukraine before the summer has been linked to French President Emmanuel Macron’s collaboration with the People’s Republic of China.
After meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Guangdong, Bloomberg reports that French President Emmanuel Macron asked French authorities to speak with their Chinese counterparts to end the conflict in Ukraine.
If Kyiv’s counteroffensive in the spring is successful enough for the Zelensky government to engage with Vladimir Putin from a position of strength, the Elysée feels a compromise is conceivable by the summer.
The source adds that Macron has given his foreign policy advisor, Emmanuel Bonne, the responsibility of opening conversations with CCP senior diplomat Wang Yi.
Mr. Macron was one of the few Western leaders to reach out to Russia in the wake of the invasion. But then he joined the neoliberal elite in demanding billions in aid and arms be shipped to the area so that the proxy war could continue.
China and Russia are close partners, and in February, Beijing reportedly provided a framework for peace discussions that would involve an immediate ceasefire. However, this strategy was widely panned for being overly vague and hence ineffective.
Despite the communist party’s frequent threats to launch a territorial war in order to capture Taiwan, a democratic sovereign country, the French president seems to take the communist dictatorship at its value.
A French official told the London Daily Telegraph that French President Emmanuel Macron made his desire for China to play a good role apparent throughout the visit. There were, of course, diplomatic discussions, and there will be more once this one concludes.
After returning from China, Macron reportedly urged Europe to develop its own “strategic autonomy” to stop becoming the “vassal” of the United States and to instead “follow” the United States into a confrontation with Beijing should the communist nation attack Taiwan. The announcement has been met with discontent by German, British, and American authorities.
Macron’s triumph is devastating news for President Joe Biden’s administration, which has advocated for a military solution to the crisis rather than diplomatic ones.
The foreign relations agenda of Joe Biden’s candidacy for vice president centered on healing ties with countries who felt alienated by the Trump administration. While he was in control, his country saw tremendous upheaval that pushed it farther and further away from its previous friends.
The Kremlin has already signaled that France, along with the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, should not be considered as candidates to arbitrate between Kyiv and Moscow because they have all given armament that will be used against Russian soldiers on the battlefield. It’s doubtful that Macron is an effective negotiator. Russian President Putin’s willingness to escalate hostilities and the potential harm to his home reputation if he is viewed as bowing in to Western pressure are other obstacles.
Despite France and then-German Chancellor Angela Merkel negotiating the Minsk peace deal in 2014, France’s credibility with the Ukrainians has been put into question by persons like former British Conservative party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith. Despite this agreement, the invasion that occurred last year proceeded nevertheless.
If you ask Sir Iain about his time in Ukraine, he will tell you, “I found that they do not trust the Chinese, and they do not trust Macron, because he put them in this predicament by coming up with the disastrous agreement with Merkel in 2014.”
Since he moved to China, a great deal of confidence has been betrayed. As the British representative put it, “His behavior is really bizarre and redolent of a snake in the grass,” alluding to the widespread perception that Macron is just interested in advancing his own interests.
Macron’s aspirations to be a world leader may be doomed by problems at home, where his administration is in trouble and millions of French citizens have protested in the last month over the awful economic reality facing the nation after five years of Macron’s neoliberal globalist governance style.